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Dad is Great! Gives me Chocolate Cake!

Posted by Brendan on April 8th, 2011 filed in comedy, parenting, youtube

Bill Hangley posted this earlier today, and I am deeply grateful.

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Christmas Visit

Posted by Brendan on December 21st, 2010 filed in parenting

Sam comes down for Christmas this Friday!
It is the first time I have seen him in person since Columbus Day Weekend. That’s an awfully long time for a father and son to go without seeing each other, but that’s what happens when your son lives in another country that’s 10 hours away by car, [...]

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AT LAST, COMMON GROUND!!

Posted by Brendan on November 16th, 2010 filed in calling bullshit, civil rights, fascism, media, meme, parenting

Looks like the right wingers hate TSA too.
But I think only one of them admits that this is a Bush creation.
UPDATED: the Tribune pulled the video from youtube. Luckily, information wants to be free.

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Conversation With Bob Casey’s Office on TSA

Riiiiiiing….riiiiiiiiiing
“hello, Senator Bob Casey’s office, Tayeesha speaking.”
“Hi Tayeesha, my name’s Brendan Skwire. I’m a constituent calling from Philadelphia, and I have a number of concerns for the Senator related to the TSA.
“I’ve spent the weekend reading a number of disturbing articles about the TSA” I quoted from Goldberg’s most salient piece:
During a trip last Sunday [...]

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I Hate Sending My Son Home (Updated)

Posted by Brendan on October 11th, 2010 filed in Philadelphia, meta, parenting

If you’re expecting a heartbreaker post, this ain’t it, but I DO detest sending my son home to Montreal. The whole process, from packing his bags to the “see you…whenever?” cloud that hangs over us all day, to the overpriced greasy Sbarro’s pizza at the airport (that never fails to taste like shit), to the [...]

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Free the Taraz Ten

Posted by Brendan on July 29th, 2010 filed in anger, babies, calling bullshit, family, international, parenting

This story makes me angry:
The website is called “Becky & Jeremy’s Exciting Adoption Adventure,” created by a Haverford couple to capture a once-in-a-lifetime odyssey to bring home a son from Kazakhstan as well as the joys of raising a first child.
But what has happened so far to Becky Compton, Jeremy Meyer, and the 16-month-old they [...]

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Sam’s 6th birthday

Posted by Brendan on January 12th, 2010 filed in parenting

Happy birthday, kiddo!

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Word to the Wise

Posted by Brendan on December 29th, 2009 filed in blogs, family, meta, parenting

Sam is visiting, so I’m not really doing too much blogging this week. However, there’s some good stuff brewing. Later this evening, I’ll be writing about our adventures with US Airways’ incompetence, as well as their surely deliberate failure to implement a complaints department (amazingly, only accessible via FAX, I shit you not).
Also, for [...]

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More Sam Shots, and a Plug for My Brother

Posted by Brendan on October 27th, 2009 filed in family, parenting, photoblog

My brother called me this afternoon to tell me he’d finally completed resizing some of his recent photos of Sam, which i hope you’ll all enjoy.
But before you scroll down, let me put in a plug for him. Ray’s photo skills are top-notch, and it is a crying shame that he hasn’t been hired by [...]

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Sam Shots from October 2009

Posted by Brendan on October 25th, 2009 filed in Philadelphia, parenting, photoblog

My brother will have more later today, but here are a few shots from Sam’s whirlwind visit in October. He’ll be coming back in December from the 26-January 5, although there’s a long weekend coming up in November when I might want to squeeze in a visit).
These shots are all pumpkin related.

Sam picked this [...]

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